Gary, The File#getRoots() method that you mentioned gets the file system roots and not user-specific directories like Documents, Downloads, Photos, Music, etc.
I ended up creating a solution with maps of directories for each operating system (or relevant OS version in the case of Windows). I also implemented a solution for resolving "~" as the home directory in URLs. I can check these into my project and send you the URLs for the files if you're interested. Cheers, Mark On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <roger.whitc...@actian.com > wrote: > I'm actually working on a similar project to make a new version of the > Apache Pivot File Browser to use VFS. So, I'd also be interested to see > what suggestions the developers here have. > > ~Roger Whitcomb > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidia...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:54 AM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [VFS] Support for File System Roots? > > Hi Gary, > This would be per operating system. So, if I call > *RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME) > *from a Linux box, that would resolve to */home/<username>*, on a > Windows box that might be */Users/<username>*. It would be driven by > the * > System.getProperty("user.home")* variable. The other roots, are OS > dependent and are subdirectories of the home directory. You might also > have another method like *getRoot(RootNames.HOME, OS.LINUX)* that would > let you get the value for Linux, even if you aren't on a Linux box. > > The URIs might look like "/Documents" which would resolve to > "file:///home/<username>/Documents". > > This came up because I'm reworking a Swing file manager using JavaFX and > I wanted to clean up the API some and minimize any VFS specific > workarounds I was doing. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Gary Gregory > <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Would this only be for Windows? What do URIs look like? > > > > Gary > > > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 14:18, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I was wondering if there were any plans (or currently any way) to > > > support File System Roots. In addition to the standard sorts of > > > roots, there are roots like your home directory, the Documents, > > > Photos, Music, Downloads, etc. > > > > > > At a minimum it would be useful to have an Enum of the different > > directory > > > names, with some way of resolving them. Something like: > > > > > > FileObject root = RootFactory.getRoot(RootNames.HOME); > > > > > > and > > > > > > Map<String, FileObject> rootMap = RootFactory.getRoots(); > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
